More cancers in Generation X due to premature aging and unhealthy lifestyles: the study

According to a recent studythose born between 1965 and the 1980 (there Generation) will develop a major risk to get sick of cancer than their parents and grandparents. If the incidence begins to rise for the current 40-year-olds, it is for the 50-60 year olds that it rises significantly.

I study

The research raising the alarm was published in the journal Jama Network Open by American epidemiologists of National Cancer Institute Of Rockvillein Maryland. The study adds to others published previously.

Researchers highlight that cancer cases before the age of 50 are increasing in several countries, as well as in the United States.

“You hope that things will get better as the years go by, especially in terms of health, life expectancy and cancer diagnoses, but the numbers tell us that unfortunately this is not the case,” commented Philip S. Rosenberg, one of the authors of the study .

The authors collected data from 3.8 million people with a cancer diagnosis, compared the incidence across generations and derived projections for those born between 1965 and 1980.

Some of the pathologies found are typical of advanced age. One of the hypotheses is that the incorrect lifestyles and thepollution can lead to a premature aging of the organism.

The risks for women

Generation X women, compared to their mothers and grandmothers, have a higher chance of developing cancers thyroid, kidneys, colon And straight, uterus, pancreas And ovaries. It also increases the risk of getting sick non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma And leukemia. However, the incidence of lung and cervical cancers is decreasing.

The risks for men

Among men, the risk of cancer increases thyroid, kidneys, prostate, colon And straight. The risk of lung, liver, gallbladder and non-Hodgkin lymphoma decreases.

The risk factors

The Corriere della Sera reports the comment of Franco Perronenational president Aiom (Italian Association of Medical Oncology).

Perrone highlights how some risk factors have now become very common even among the very young. It is about “sedentary lifestyle, incorrect diet, overweight, obesity, smoke and alcohol abuse.”

But other factors also influence, such as air pollution (traffic and industrial fumes), that domestic (heating) and the natural springs (such as ionizing radiation and ultraviolet rays).